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62 Pages j Pages! to 12 VOL. XXVII. NO. 14. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. IKE PLEAS FOR NEW TRUST LI Champions of Labor and Capital Heard. GOMPERS SPEAKS FOR UNIONS Wants Law to Recognize the Right to Combine. AND DEFENDS BOYCOTT Srth l,ov Says Traffic Agreements In I'uMie Interest and Present Law Is Against .Modern Bus iness Tendencies. AV AS?I MNGTON. April 4. The proposed amendments to the Slu-rman anil-trust bill, as framed by the National Civic Fed eration and Introduced In the House re cently by Mr. Hepburn, of Iowa, were ftlvurated today hofore a subcommittee ff the Mouse judiciary committee by Snth Low, of New York, president of the Civic Federation; Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor; A. F. Gorretson. of Cedar Rapids, president of the Railway Conductors, and Theodore Marburg, of Baltimore. That there Is strong opposition to the proposed meas ure was intimated by a number of tele grams made public by Chairman JLlttle hvtd. of the subcommittee, from manu facturing and other business concerns throughout the country. HlRht or Labor lo V it lie. Samuel Gompers was the principal speaker at the afternoon session and he sounded a warning- that the workingmen ef the country would not wait much longer for the passage of remedial legis lation. Mr. Gompers related that when the laboring people were considering the ntl-trust law, they asked to have It amended to provide that the act shall ntt be construed to apply to any arrange ments, agreements or combinations be tween laborers made with a view of less ening the number of hours of labor or the increasing of their wages, nor ar rangements, agreements or combinations among persons engaged in horticulture or agriculture, with a vlnv of enhancing the price of agricultural of horticultural products. This section, said Mr. Gompers, was at oin time agreed to, but was not In the bill when it passed Congress. tn 1901, he said, a hearing was given by the Mouse judiciary committee dn this amendment. "I believe Mr. Llttletleld will remember that hearing," continued Mr. Gompers. Tilt With LUtleflehl. "I remember It quite well," replied Mr. Llttletleld. "I was one of those who voted against it." "Nine voted against It, rejoined Mr. Gompers, "and some of them are not now in Congress." He continued: The so-called Sherman anti-trust law Is nut an anti-trust law; it is an antl loinhlnatlon law. It is ;i law against associated effort: It is a law .something like a law which obtained about two thousand years njro in Koine, that made every form of association or organiza tion which was not approved by the emperor unlawful. We favor the enact ment of laws which shall restrict the Jurisdiction of courts of equity to property or properly rights, and shall so define property rights that neither directly nor indirectly shall there be held to be any property or property rights in the labor of any person. May Drive I'tilnns I'ndcrgxound. Mr. Gompers reviewed the recent court decisions adverse to organized labor, hut Bald that these organizations would not be driven out of the country, lie pro ceeded: You may . drive the men and women out of labor organizations Into secret organizations. You may drive them In tii the dark, but they are golnj? to organize and remain organized. It' not in the way you will permit by law. they will organize In secret, and neither f ukase nor injunctions are going1 to I drive them out of this countrv. Sun- pose you force them to do in secret the Perfectly legitimate human activities tiny have always performed in the open. need not say to you, gentle men, that In the open, where men can ex press their view s thoroughly, where they can promulgate to the world their - a F0PSiDH7 -Now Where ' Th" 7 .mm Mi Hp thoughts, their business will always be more intelligent and circuijispect than If they were considering the same question In secret, where they are freed from the criticism of the general pub lic. What hope has the working man to protect his rights and his Interests if he. in modern industry, must be an in dividual? I am afraid to give my mind ra ngc to the possibilities of such a condition of affairs. I contend for our organizations of labor that they are the greatest conservators of the public peace. Opposes Registering Unions. Mr. Gompers said that since the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dan bury (Conn.) ca?e, 73 hatters in New Orleans have been convicted on the charge of vio lation of the anti-Sherman trust act in ordering a strike. He said he would give the fullest support to the purpose of the proposed legislation, although his organ ization was adverse to the registration of labor organizations clause of the bill. He did not think these organizations should b? required to register in order to get immunity under the act, but thought they should be placed In the same posi- I xf k , - V 1 j I ( - " I , .w . X Soth l.ovr, Champion of New AnlE-Triiftt Iltll Before JJonae Committer. tlon they 'occupied before the Sherman anti-trust law was enacted. He suggested an amendment to the bill under discussion similar in terms to the one the labor or ganizations tried to have incorporated in the Sherman act when it originally passed Congress. Ho continued: The worklngmen of the country feel that they have been outraged; that their interests 'have been invaded. In the interests of the working-man I make this appeal to you. We cannot wait this long . for you. The temper of the American work ma n will permit nothing but a strict account of this urgent appeal. Fnvors the Boycott. In reply to a question by Mr. Little field, Mr Gompers admitted that the amendment he had proposed would re lieve organized labor from the opera tion of the decision of the Supreme Court In the hatter's case. "ho you. as a representative of the Hatters' Union, favor the boycott?" asked Littlefleld. "I do, sir," replied Gompers. "And your organization contends for that, does it not?-' "H does, sir." Gompers concluded his argument with the statement that the men and women of organized labor purpose . to fight for their rights, and that he pur posed to fight with them. During the course of his argument Mr. Marburg; gave as the principal causes of the recent : financial panic "the crazy policy of the attack upon railroads, both by Federal and state I egt station and the unnecessary and revengeful tine imposed upon the Standard Oil Company." Let Itallroacta Combine. Seth Low. in speaking of the ob jects of the National Civic Federa tion in preparing an amended bill, said: Common carriers should be permitted to combine and to make traffic agree ments in some cases, subject to Gov ernmental supervision, for combina tion and traffic agreements often mean more effective service to the public. "What Is wanted If effective pub supervision and not absolute prohibition of the very thing that may set urc the best public service. It is sin gu lar that a people who have con stituted the greatest republic in his tory by the combination of many states should ever for a moment deny to Its own commercial agencies the. oppor tunity of giving better service by pro ceeding along the same lines. Regula tion, not probitlon, should be our watchword In all such matters. There is scarcely a line of commer cial business, if there be even one. In w hich combination in restraint of trade is not sometimes desirable in these days In the public interest, no less than in the interest of trade for mod ern business Is very complex and its problems are often trade problems as distinguished from investment prob lems. Law Is Universal. No law can set aside the universal law which leads men In these days, to (Concluded Cn Page .. SOME Thl May Atrakra Him Perhaps. HOPELESS SPLIT OH SPOKANE CASE Interstate Commission Cannot Agree. THREE OPINIONS ARE HELD Advocates of No One Are in Clear Majority. CONFERENCE WITHOUT END Whole Structure of Freight Rates Depends on Decision AVhlcli Com mission Cannot lSeacli Port land Is Vitally Interested. WASHINGTON, April 4. (Special.) After having the Spokane rate case under consideration for more than one year the Interstate Commerce Commis sion is apparently hopelessly divided regarding the decision which should be rendered. The .case is the most important upon the dockets of the Com mission and upon it hinges the entire rate fabric of the United States. If the Commission should decide with the shippers of Spokane the theory upon which the railroads have mad rates from the earliest days will be upset and past decisions on the short and long haul clause of the commerce act will be more or less nullned. On the other hand, if the Commission re fuses to disturb the present adjust ment, a long step toward establishing the justice of the ratemaking methods of the railroads will have been taken. Recognizing the import of the case the Commission went Into a most care ful and elaborate investigation and hearing of all the facts and listened to arguments from a large number of the business, railroad and commercial lawyers in the West. Since the arguments were heard the Commission has had numerous confer ences regarding a decision, and it de velops that there are at least three different views which thus far have proved irreconcilable. ' The Commis sion has struggled in vain to get a majority report and apparently is in a deadlock. The case la one which had been bothering the railroads in the North west for years prior to the Commis sion's being given greator powers. Owing to water competition, according to the railroads, the rates to Spokane from the Eastern seaboard are the rates to the Pacific Coast, plus the local rates from the Pacific Coast back to Spokane. The lattes city Insists that this is unfair, and that it should be given the advantage of Its location and thereby secure the benefit of lower rates than the Pacific Coast cities. It is also maintained that water compe tition' is largely a theory. If not a myth. ' ' SOON DKCIDE LIMBER HATES Then Commission Will Act on Opening Portland Gateway. OREGON'IAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, April 4. The Portland gateway case, which was argued last Fall and which Involves the shipment of lumber eastward from Puget Sound via Port land, will not be decided until the Interstate Commerce Commission has rendered an opinion on the lumber rate cases which were recently argued here. The Commission will next week hold its first conference on the lumber rate case and its decision In that case may not be forthcoming for many weeks, though there is a disposition to settle this question with as much expedition as possible, as it involves the lumber industry of the entire Northwest. Will Refinance the Erie. NEW YORK, April 4. A tentative plan for refinancing the Erie Railway Com pany, which was made necessary through the approach to maturity of an issue of OF THE EVENTS OF THE WEEK STRIKE HARRY MURPHY'S FUNNY RY5 HF DOEb NOT WBMT TOON rrrparlnic a Grand Welcome for a Worthy Beerult. Ik J5.500.000 notes, was agreed to at a meet ing held at the office of J. P. Morgan uc Co., this afternoon. The plan calls for a new issue of three-year 6 per cent notes to the amount of $15,000,000. secured by J12.000.000 in bonds in the treasury, worth J9.000.000. Holders of the $5,500,000. which falls due next Wednesday, will be asked to take their proportionate share of $10, 500,0(0 of the new Issue, and if they assent, J. P. Morgan & Co. and the di rectors of the road will buy J5.OOO.O0O worth for cash at par. the other J4.5IXI.0O0 of new notes to remain In the treasury. RIPL.ET DENIES THE RVMOU Will Not Retire From the Presidency of the Santa Fe. SANTA BARBARA. Cal., April 4. When E. P. Ripley, president of the Santa Fe Railroad Company, was asked regarding the report from New York that he is about to resign and that Paul Morton te to succeed him as president of the Santa Fe system, he made the following staement: "It is all rot. 1 have not the slight est intention of retiring from the pres idency of tre Santa Fe. Mr. Morton is now out of the railroad business, and I know it is not Us intention to return to it. "This same report was published in Chicago about ten days ago and I de nied it at that time. I do not know how the report could have been given new life." CONTENTS TODAY'S PAPER Th Weather. YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 62 degrees; 'minimum. 3ti degree. TODAY'S Showers; southerly wtndn. Foreign. Duke or Portland wants to celebrate victory over Drucc. Section 3. naffe -4. Japan to abHsh sti-ma o-f caste on lower flashes. . Section 11. paT 7 Brltaln alarmed at xruwth of Socialism. Section 4. pas'? 1. German Diet forbids use of anv language but German. Section 1. pane S. Japan makes extraordinary war preparations to continue expansion policy. Section 4, page 1. National. Republican HoiiFe lendrrs crush filibuster with new rules. Section 1. nage 4. Russia inclines to vleld to United States on control of Manchuria. Section 1!. pac 2. Houre committer hears vigorous appeals from labor and capital on new trust bill. Section 1. paKe 1. Chtf of Crow Indian defends Agent Reynold-. Section 1. rajre '2. Serine committee vote 'to Increase Midlers' jm"y. Section 1, papre 7. Itinerary of flet-t; on voyape up Coast. Sec tion 2. page 2. 10 II Mrs. Old Fifth-avenue Hot4 In New' York closes, and politicians are homeless. Section 1, page S. Senator Plntt makes speech at closing of Fifth-avenue Hotel. Section 1. pue n. tighes declines to select men for delegate. ' t: Section 1. page 2. flitter prohibition campaign in Illinois near end. Section I. page 1. Iferrln machine adonts "desperate means to dreat League In California. Section 1. page 2. Taft speaks at Chicago on Philippine tariff and starved diplomats. Section 1. Page 1. Iomettc. Hopeless division In lnteratate Commission on Spokane rate case, .-fee Lion 1. pag 1. State, of Ctah fights for $ HMi.nnQ.OOU sail mine. Section 1. page 3. Sport. Portland Automobil Club plans auto road from Mount Hood to the Pacific. Section 4, page 6. Trl-City Ieajme season will open next Sat urday. Section 4, page (J. Many entries for Indoor track meet at Columbia University next Saturday. Sec tion 4, page 6. Baseball battle now on in earnest. Section 4, page 7. Multnomah Club defeats West Portland Trl-City League nine. Section 2. page 12. Cambridge wins English university boat race. Section 4, page 7. New York horsemen admit defeat on anti betting bill. Section 4, page 7. Coast League games: San Francisco 2. Portland 0; Los Angeles 4, Oakland 2. Section 1, page 11. l-aclflc Coat. Women of California demand removal of forester who cut redwoods. Section I. page S. Colorado mining millionaire elopes with chambermaid. Section 1. page 1. Senator Fulton sued for $."Ooo damages for slunder. Section 1, page 7. Salem horse- show tremendous success. Sec tion 1, page 0. Ex-Catholic priest marries and lives happily. Section 2. page 3.- Washington Supreme Court renders decision affecting Minnesota. Section 1, page 7. Commercial and Marine. Grain men will make rules to govern Board of Trade operations. Section 4. page 9. Prediction of rain weakens Eastern wheat markets. Section 4, page 9. Stock speculators await settlement of Erie's financial trouble. Section 4, page 9. Vessels for new crop loading are not In de mand; flour business looks up. Section 4, page 8. ' Portland and Vicinity. Position of legislative candidates on Statei ment No. 1. Section 1, page 1. Holdrup men rob J. C. Mann's grocery store of ?2K. Section 2, page 12. Change of venue granted to indicted bank ers. Section 4, page lO. March shows improvement in building op erations over normal. Section 3, page 8. Hast Side building sites in god demand. Section 3. page 9. O. R. & N. will run anqther farm demon stration train. Section 3, page lO. School electrician replies to Fire Marshal Roberts. Section 3, page 8. Taxes will be delinquent after tomorrow. Section 3, page 12. Tribute of Oregon bar to Judge Hailey'. Section 3, page 4- Flve ordinances vetoed by Mayor Lane. Sec tion 3. page 12. Henry Hahn discusses effect of railway rate reduction. Section 1, page 9. I acle iot'm Sew Role as a Roller. BITTER BUTTLE AGAINST SALOON linois Will Decide Is sue. Tuesday. HOTTEST FIGHT IN FIFTY YEARS Divides Families and Causes Violent Deeds. BLOODSHED IS EXPECTED White-Gowned Children Will Pa rade and Women Work at Polls. Whole State Writhes In Anguish of Conflict. CHICAGO. April A. (Special. )-Illinois has just passed through the most slash ing, terrific and no-quarter campaign the state has experienced since the days of the Civil War. The sole Issue has been the licensed saloon. The verdict will be rendered at the polls Tuesday, when at the township elections the fate of 3000 salocns will be determined. For bitterness, spectacular elements, wealth of argument and unrestrained feeling, old-time politicians aver that the fight just terminating holds all Illinois records. Brothers have been arrayed against brothers; charges and counter charges of dynamiting, house-wrecking, personal attacks all of these have been reported as well-dpfined features of the desperate battle which has been fought between the Anti-Saloon league on the one hand and the combined forces of the brewers and distillers, the retail liquor men, the manufacturers of and dealers in supplier which are affiliated with the liquor business, and the men who stand for personal liberty on the other. Both Sides Claim Victory. On the eve of the election, with the most Hery appeal not yet made, with the proposed parades of white-gowned school children, with the women working nt the polls and with every resource of the practical politician about to be brought into play on election day. neither side knows its precise prospect. The Anti-Saloon League declares itself con fident of carrying at least 900 of the 1200 townships which will vote. Th!s, it says, will be a decisive victory. The liquor Interests, the men who hav been making the fight for the saloons, are positive that practically all the larger cities In the state will be held in the liquor column. This election affects 84 of the 102 coun ties of the state. Prom Galena to Cairo and from the Indiana line to the Mis sissippi River the most Intense interest and excitement have marked the closing days of the struggle. Loins Girded for Battle. The anti-saloonists had their first taste of victory last "November; when 16 coun ties,, jiot under township organization, tested the -local option law under which the Tuesday election will be held, and succeeded in establishing six entirely dry counties and abolishing 205 saloons. Then the real fight began almost as soon as the November results had been an nounced. The opponents of the saloon girded up their loins and the friends of the saloon saw trouble ahead. Since that moment, when each element clearly realized the situation, Illinois has writhed and struggled between contending bat talions of speakers, acres of billboards covered with pro and con arguments, tons of liters ture and pages of news paper space, striving to make votes for or against the saloon. Political lines have been effaced before the very definite, cold blooded, clean-cut question which goes on the ballot: Bloodshed Is Predicted. An affirmative vote in the entire poli tical township means that within 30 days every saloon must quit business, no further licenses can be issued by any power or municipality unless after another petition, campaign and election the township shall have voted to recreate Something DoIbk Soon Probably. itself Into saloon territory. And no elec tion can be held for two years after anti license territory is created. Alonzo EL Wilson, chairman of the Pro hibition State Committee, openly predicts bloodshed in the state Tuesday. In other states than Illinois, the saloon question will be a direct issue with the voters Monday and Tuesday. In Ne braska, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas and Missouri, in one form or another, the liquor issue is the vital feature of the municipal elections. MORMONS FOR PROHIBITION President Smith Says They Must Aid In Movement. SALT LAKE CITY, April 4. By the utterances of its leaders the Mormon Church was today enlisted in a cam paign for local option and ultimate prohibition. President Joseph Smith in opening the seventy-eighth semt-annual conference used these words: There is a movement throughout the land for local option and I hold that every Representative John Dnlaell, Who urWd FilUmNtererst in the Hoiinc Latter Day Saint will co-operate with the movement, that we may curtail this monster Intemperance. We think and feet that the people 'should be permitted to say if they will have drunkenness", riot, murder and kindred crimes, which too often come from the use of strpng drink. Other church authorities spoke in the same vein. Politicians of all parties admit that the policy of the church will lead to the early enactment of a local option law, something this state has never had. Idaho, Wyoming and other states in which the percentage of Mormon vote l large may see the effect of Mr. Smith's pronouncement. Coming at such a time and place his utterance will be received by the church as an inspired command. . The conference will last for, three days. Fifteen thousand persons are in attendance and of these 8000 were in the tabernacle today. LOVES THE CHAMBERMAID MILLIONAIRE MINING : MAN SPIRITS HER' AWAY. " Her Charms Make 'Moylan Forget Business Obligations to Partner. Treats Her Like a Princess. SAN FRANCISCO, April 4. (Special.) W. B. 'Moylan, f San Francisco, million aire mining man and contractor, was ap prehended tonight, in Texas, speeding to New Orleans as fast as steam could carry him, and with him is May Taylor, a pretty chambermaid, formerly employed at the Grand Hotel. Before departing mysteriously yesterday afternoon, Moylan is accused by his busi ness partner, John A. ' Madden, a well known hotel man, of drawing out $38,000 of their joint account from the Western National Bank. Madden attempted to secure a warrant for Moylan's arrest, but was unable to do so, for the reason that they were business partners. Moylan met the .fair chambermaid only a few days ago and immediately became smitten with her charms. He neglected his business interests and forsook his friends for the charmer. Three days ago he persuaded her to leave her po sition. Hp bought her diamonds and fine dresses and wined and dined her like a princess. That Moylan carefully planned the elopement Is shown by the manner In which he left his apartments at the Hotel Van Dorn, In Turk street. Thursday afternoon he stole quietly up to his room, packed all his effects and shipped them to the ferry depot. A few hours later he purchased tickets for New Or leans for John Moylan and wife. BONE "The Money's Yours If YouH Jaat Put Me l There With the Other.." STATE LINE-UP ON STATEMENT NO. 1 Majority of Aspirants Declines Pledge. ' OF 158 CANDIDATES 66 SIGN Spirited Legislative Contests in Many Counties. DEMOCRATS LYING LOW Kepnblioans Enter Complete Ticket, With 5 Favoring Party Choice for - Senator and 3 6 Mak ing No Announcement. Statement No. 1 has the indorsement of less than a majority of the Republicans who are candidates for nomination to the i?tate Legislature In the primary election to be held on Aoril 17. Of the 158 Re publican candidates for the Legislature throughout the state, only 6tf have sub- scribed to Statement No. 1. The other HOW fAXDIDATES FOR SENATOR STA.MJ. 2 3?5 DISTRICT 5 Douglas "'Josephine SiCoos and Curry 11 Washington 13!Multnoinuh 16 Wasco IT, Crook. Klamath, lake lSjOltliam, Sherman and I Wheeler ; 21 1 1'nion and Wallowa... 22iGrant, Harney and I Malheur 24iWashlngton. . Yamhill, TlllamooK, Lincoln Total 15! 13 15! 10 92 declined to sign the statement. Fifty, six have agreed. If nominated Jind elected, to support for Senator the choice of the Republican voters of the state as ex pressed at the primary election this irion th. The other 3t are unpledged. At POSITION OK CANDIDATES FOR THE IIOISK. 5 si DISTRICT Marion Unn Iane Douglas Coos Coos and Curry i .... i'.... Josephine Jackson Douglas and Jackson.. Benton Polk Polk and Lincoln Yamhill Tillamook, Yamhill ... Washington i:. 3 31 Clackamas Clackamas and Mult nomah 1 Multnomah 12 Clatsop Columbia Crook, Grant, Klam ath and Iake 1 Morrow and Umatilla.! rmatUla Cnion and Wallowa... Raker I'nion Harney and Malheur.. Gilltam. Sherman and Wheeler ! Wasco I Total 00 41 the June election 15 State Senators and 60 Representatives are to be elected and It is for these positions that the Republi cans of the state will select candidates this month from the list of laS aspirants. For the 15 Senatorial nominations, there are 38 candidates, of whom 13 are pledged ' to Statement No. 1, IT will support the Republican voters choice and 10 are un- (Concluded on Pa fee 4.) Here We Are Again! I